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Interesting Topics

Praise

  • tobiaseigen kicked off a vibrant thread on favorite Discourse sites in the wild, sharing his long-time love for meta.discourse.org here and inviting others like ct-337 to showcase gems such as the Gimkit Creative forums and Prodigy forum here.

Support

  • A new user asked How do I send a message to a user? and Moin explained the trust level requirement here, while chapoi clarified the TL0 restriction and welcomed them here.

  • In Is there a “Reply to View” plugin for Discourse?, copymonopoly revealed custom code and rgj pointed them to the official private-replies plugin here after the OP intro here.

  • On Spam providing from internal IP addresses as 172.17.0.1?, Thanatermesis charted mysterious local-IP spam here and pfaffman suggested real_ip_header tweaks in app.yml here.

  • A member proposed Simple sensor-driven notifications via Webhooks or MQTT? and pmusaraj recommended scoped API keys for lightweight IoT posts here after the OP’s project outline here.

  • How to assign topic to a moderator using curl or python script (not from web UI) saw srk123 ask for the assign-plugin endpoint here and Moin pointed to reverse-engineering the API here.

  • Can I send an automated welcome message to all new users? featured SubStrider’s ask here and Moin mapped Discobot settings for custom greetings here.

  • A Persistent SMTP Timeout Issue with Spacemail on Discourse (VPS, Docker) was reported by errorexee here and supermathie diagnosed port 465 vs 587 nuances here.

  • Renaming sub-categories didn’t work properly had GeoffSchultz describe broken labels on knysnayachtowners.org here and a restart miraculously fixed the glitch.

Installation

  • In OIDC users not associating with existing Discourse users, WurstLander detailed Keycloak mishaps here and pmusaraj suggested email-match checks for account linking here.

Dev

  • RFC: A new versioning strategy for Discourse sparked debate over monthly vs quarterly releases OP, with schneeland questioning upgrade flows here and david outlining launcher behavior here.

Bug

  • Sidebar activation issues after recent Doc Categories update saw MachineScholar report missing sidebars here and nat digging into rake outputs and cache concerns here.

Plugin

  • The Discourse Doc Categories plugin received a self-hosters update from nat about manual rake tasks for sidebar rebuilds here.

Feature

  • Monikas suggested adding a daily point limit to the gamification plugin to curb farming here and linked back to the core Discourse Gamification topic here.

#Site Management

  • fzngagan showed how to add llms.txt for better LLM crawling in a private topic and expose it via a permalink at /llms.txt here using this example file.

Activity by the @team Group

  • tobiaseigen launched the favorite-sites thread here and shared his personal picks here.

  • nat unraveled the Doc Categories sidebar bug here and detailed self-hosted rebuild steps in the plugin topic here.

  • chapoi clarified PM trust levels in “How do I send a message to a user?” here (and cheekily noted the jinx at post 6).

  • david steered the new versioning RFC, proposing upgrade commands here and branching options for plugin authors here.

  • pmusaraj triaged the Doc Categories issue here, guided the MQTT/Webhook integration here, and helped with OIDC associations here.

  • fzngagan outlined the llms.txt setup for LLM-friendly endpoints here.

  • supermathie diagnosed the Spacemail SMTP timeout woes on VPS containers here.

  • tgxworld proposed more intuitive “after last reply” labels for topic timers here.

  • martin reproduced and dissected title-edit bump behavior here.

No puppies were harmed, but our community pups surely wagged their tails reading 97 posts yesterday!